New Book on the Sabbath by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 18, 1864

New Book on the Sabbath.

By Editor

REV. E. Q. FULLER has written a new book on the subject of the Sabbath, which is published by Messrs. Poe & Hitchcock, of Cincinnati. Its title is, "The Two Sabbaths: an essay showing that the Patriarchal and Christian Sabbaths are one and the same, and that the Jewish Sabbath has been abrogated." We have not seen the work, but find the following sensible notice of it in a recent number of The Methodist:

"The author of this little book proves clearly enough that there was an actual Sabbath before the giving of the law by Moses. That is plain enough, but we are not able to agree with his ingenious attempt to prove that the original Sabbath, the patriarchal, was the first day of the week, and that the Jews changed it to the seventh. Moses tells us that at the end of the work of creation, God hallowed the seventh day, not the first. And when the Sabbath was incorporated into the Mosaic law, the seventh was again the honored day, and, as far as we can learn from the history, in the sense as at first. If Moses by the seventh day, in Genesis, had meant the first day of the week, and by the seventh in Exodus had meant the last day of the week, he surely would have given his readers some slight hint of such diversity of meaning?" [Sub. Recorder.